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EJBCA
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.. warning::
Because of some integration problems with the Sun PKCS11 provider, keys generated from EJBCA will have a random name instead of the name given in the interface.
Therefor this documentation is only a Proof-of-Concept and we don't currently support EJBCA.


`EJBCA <https://www.ejbca.org/>`__ is a PKI Certificate Authority software available as open source.

To be able to use NetHSM with EJBCA you need to `setup <pkcs11-setup.html>`__ the NetHSM PKCS#11 module first.
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To be able to generate keys from the interface you need to set the ``enable_set_attribute_value`` option to true in the ``p11nethsm.conf`` file.

.. warning::
Because of some integration problems with the Sun PKCS11 provider, keys generated from EJBCA will have a random name instead of the name given in the interface.

After restarting EJBCA you can add a new Crypto Token in the EJBCA Admin GUI ``https://mycahostname/ejbca/adminweb/cryptotoken/cryptotokens.xhtml``.
The Crypto Token type is ``PKCS#11 Crypto Token`` and the Crypto Token name is ``NetHSM``.

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